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Re: List of Deprecated Legacy Characters
Oh, here we are.While the list of deprecated characters in a Wikipedia article may be out of date, it presumably links to the appropriate spot on the Unicode site. And so my memory wasn't playin…1 -
Re: Initial and Medial-Final Latin characters
Of course, this shows that Greek, at least, has a legitimate need for 'final', so if that feature was excluded from Greek in addition to Latin, that was a mistake. What surprises me is tha…1 -
Re: What do you call this part of an /r?
If in E and F, all the sideways parts are called arms, then the corresponding curved part of f is likely also called an arm. In the case of r, we're also dealing with an essential structural par…1 -
Re: Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting
IIRC, that was because of the difficulty in typesetting Nastaliq.1 -
Re: Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting
He is even holding the row of type in his hand without the luxury of a composing stick! And, yes, Hrant's comment makes sense. In Asia and the Middle East, as well as Ethiopia, people are less w…1
